There is a difference between not locking your door (inaction) and broadcasting the data to the world (action).
Google did not "come in and snoop around", they passively listened from the street -- hence the analogy to a big sign on top of the house.
How about if you leave your blinds open, and I sit in a car outside your house with a telephoto lens taking pictures of everything I can see inside, and storing them in a database?
Did hardwarecanucks even read the press release they wrote about?
The press release mentions neither Episode 3 nor Duke Nukem. So where the hell did the "Looks like all those rumors about Duke Nukem rising from the grave or Half Life 3 putting in an appearance have been shot down in one fell swoop. Sorry folks. " comment come from?
Despite that healthy dose of reality, the rabid fanboy in me just can't let go of this feeling that it was just Pirates of the Caribbean in the desert (case in point: Jack Sparrow ostrich racing).
Heh, that's what I saw one of the reviews call it: Pirates of the Caribbean, but without Jack Sparrow.
Probably because they introduced extra family members, made the Sands of Time more of a macguffin than anything, rewrote Farah and her dynamic with the prince, changed the Vizier to the clichéd crazy uncle, didn't turn anyone into a sand monster and changed what I thought was a pretty amusing and appropriate ending in the game to an "oh my god, I could have seen that coming if I was blind" ending in the movie.
That's just a guess though.
Nobody should expect a movie to follow the video game's plot exactly. I thought it was a pretty good tribute myself, though I do agree that they really should have kept the game's ending.
Don't tell me you don't even get a laugh out of those America's Funniest Home Videos where little kids are attacked by animals and elderly people fall down stairs??!!
I found the play control to be amazingly poor. Having to move the mouse so much was frustrating at best.
You can use WASD for movement, and only use the mouse for aiming. This also lets you shoot in a different direction from movement. You can also use a gamepad like the 360 controller, but I prefer keyboard+mouse.
At least in normal cases, they don't take away your winnings when they ban you. Of course, you're unlikely to win $11 million by counting cards in black jack.
Insightful? Yes, lets defend against the potential of an encounter with a crooked cop with the "kill'em all, let god sort'em out" approach. What could possibly go wrong?
I now submit that all Slashdot posters are potential cop-killers and pedophiles, and must be lynched on site. It's the only way to be sure (since there aren't enough nukes in orbit.)
I'm not a hardcore player, but I play League of Legends for about 3-4 hours a day every day. It cost me... nothing. The game is free. Don't waste your money on any games this year, just get on my level and LoL.
It costs you 3-4 hours a day. Unless time is value-less to you, the game is hardly "free".
I bet half of those people are playing nothing but WoW.
I personally spend maybe 15-25 hrs/week playing games, and the only game released in 2010 that I've spent more than a couple hours on is the PC version of Toki Tori. And I don't even play MMOs.
How about the "information wants to be free" trolls, who insist that just because something can be digitized, it has to be freely available to the masses?
Seems everyone is in either one extreme or the other. Whatever happened to moderation?
I got two yahoo accounts, and haven't received one of these "privacy minders" in either one. Maybe its because I insist on using their classic email interface instead of the web 2.0 mess?
Actually he was right. You can see your own password because it's your password.
You can even see it after logging out, because slashdot remembers your ip. And detects it through web proxies. And uses biometrics on the keyboard to recognize you from another computer.
Well, Daggerfall has plenty of random cities and dungeons (not procedurally generated history though). There are hundreds, if not thousands, of cities and dungeons and tombs and what not in Daggerfall. However that's kinda like saying that the galaxy is full of stars - there might be a billion stars in the Milky Way, but you wouldn't want to fly to the next one without an FTL drive.
Haven't played Daggerfall but I think its similar to how you described. The area available in the game is supposedly twice the size of Britain, most of which was generated randomly.
I wouldn't be surprised if its even larger than that. However most of it is empty of anything other than said randomly generated terrain, and the occasional random encounter with an animal or bandit.
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Obligatory xkcd.
The light from inside your window is broadcast OUT as well.
There is a difference between not locking your door (inaction) and broadcasting the data to the world (action).
Google did not "come in and snoop around", they passively listened from the street -- hence the analogy to a big sign on top of the house.
How about if you leave your blinds open, and I sit in a car outside your house with a telephoto lens taking pictures of everything I can see inside, and storing them in a database?
Did hardwarecanucks even read the press release they wrote about?
The press release mentions neither Episode 3 nor Duke Nukem. So where the hell did the "Looks like all those rumors about Duke Nukem rising from the grave or Half Life 3 putting in an appearance have been shot down in one fell swoop. Sorry folks. " comment come from?
Despite that healthy dose of reality, the rabid fanboy in me just can't let go of this feeling that it was just Pirates of the Caribbean in the desert (case in point: Jack Sparrow ostrich racing).
Heh, that's what I saw one of the reviews call it: Pirates of the Caribbean, but without Jack Sparrow.
Probably because they introduced extra family members, made the Sands of Time more of a macguffin than anything, rewrote Farah and her dynamic with the prince, changed the Vizier to the clichéd crazy uncle, didn't turn anyone into a sand monster and changed what I thought was a pretty amusing and appropriate ending in the game to an "oh my god, I could have seen that coming if I was blind" ending in the movie.
That's just a guess though.
Nobody should expect a movie to follow the video game's plot exactly. I thought it was a pretty good tribute myself, though I do agree that they really should have kept the game's ending.
Don't tell me you don't even get a laugh out of those America's Funniest Home Videos where little kids are attacked by animals and elderly people fall down stairs??!!
I found the play control to be amazingly poor. Having to move the mouse so much was frustrating at best.
You can use WASD for movement, and only use the mouse for aiming. This also lets you shoot in a different direction from movement. You can also use a gamepad like the 360 controller, but I prefer keyboard+mouse.
At least in normal cases, they don't take away your winnings when they ban you. Of course, you're unlikely to win $11 million by counting cards in black jack.
Over Rated?! DID YOU PLAY Space Siege? Oh, wait. I see your point now.
A MetaCritic score of 60 is "overrated" for this game? Wow, it must really suck...
Compared to civilized countries like the U.S. where you can only pay a private firm to kidnap, lock up and abuse children.
Yes, and Pennsylvania judges don't get commission for each kid they send off to juvie, right?
Insightful? Yes, lets defend against the potential of an encounter with a crooked cop with the "kill'em all, let god sort'em out" approach. What could possibly go wrong?
I now submit that all Slashdot posters are potential cop-killers and pedophiles, and must be lynched on site. It's the only way to be sure (since there aren't enough nukes in orbit.)
I'm not a hardcore player, but I play League of Legends for about 3-4 hours a day every day. It cost me... nothing. The game is free. Don't waste your money on any games this year, just get on my level and LoL.
It costs you 3-4 hours a day. Unless time is value-less to you, the game is hardly "free".
I bet half of those people are playing nothing but WoW.
I personally spend maybe 15-25 hrs/week playing games, and the only game released in 2010 that I've spent more than a couple hours on is the PC version of Toki Tori. And I don't even play MMOs.
How about the "information wants to be free" trolls, who insist that just because something can be digitized, it has to be freely available to the masses?
Seems everyone is in either one extreme or the other. Whatever happened to moderation?
I got two yahoo accounts, and haven't received one of these "privacy minders" in either one. Maybe its because I insist on using their classic email interface instead of the web 2.0 mess?
So much for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The ninja turtles were mutants, not hybrids!
Perhaps start with Gary's Mod?
You moon him? < is your friend.
Dilbert?
Actually he was right. You can see your own password because it's your password.
You can even see it after logging out, because slashdot remembers your ip.
And detects it through web proxies.
And uses biometrics on the keyboard to recognize you from another computer.
Yeah, that's it.
Well, Daggerfall has plenty of random cities and dungeons (not procedurally generated history though). There are hundreds, if not thousands, of cities and dungeons and tombs and what not in Daggerfall. However that's kinda like saying that the galaxy is full of stars - there might be a billion stars in the Milky Way, but you wouldn't want to fly to the next one without an FTL drive.
Haven't played Daggerfall but I think its similar to how you described. The area available in the game is supposedly twice the size of Britain, most of which was generated randomly.
I wouldn't be surprised if its even larger than that. However most of it is empty of anything other than said randomly generated terrain, and the occasional random encounter with an animal or bandit.